Safety-razor.



W. E. OREILLY. SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.3, 1914.

1,1 13,475, Patented 0t.13, 1914.

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WILLIAM EDMUND OREILLY, 0F SOFIA, BULGARIA.

SAFETY-RAZOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 3, 1914. Serial N 0. 810,126.

employed which is secured to a comb-likeguard or holder.

The present invention has for its object to provide means whereby the stropping of the blade of this type of razor may be effected without requiring said blade to be removed from the guard.

Now according to this invention, I provide the front of the guard with a longitu dinal projection formed integrally with the guard and which is arranged centrally of the holder and is of such height and conformation that the surface of the strop or the like when the blade is pressed thereon is disposed at an angle coinciding withthe angle formed by the bevel producin the cutting edge. The projection just referred to may serve as a means for securing the blade, which is of the thin slotted type, to the guard.

In order that the invention may be the better understood drawings are appended in which Figure 1. is a longitudinal vertical section of a razor guard or holder embodying a form of the present invention. Fig. 2. is a plan of the underside of the holder with the stropping piece thereon. Fig. 3. is a trans; verse vertical section centrally of the razor.

Referring to the accompanying drawings in which for convenience of illustration the razor is shown to an enlarged scale, a indicates the guard which is of the known double comb-like form, 7) indicates the blade also of known form and'havin'g a central longitudinal slot 6 as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. and in full lines in Fig. 3, and from which as it forms no part of the present invention the handle is omitted. Forming part of the holder is a centrally and longitudinally placed rojection c w ich is of such height that w on the razor is placed upon the strop the surface of the said strop,

indicated by dotted lines'w' Fig. 3. will be disposed at an angle coincident with the angle to which the blade is beveled to form the cutting edge. The projection 0 may also be utilized as a means for securing the b de to the holder, in which case it is reduced at each end to an extent sufficient to leave a Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

space between it and the surface of the\' holder to accommodate the blade which,

when being placed in position is first caused.

to engage beneath, one end of the projection c, the blade being flexed or bent sufficiently for this purpose, then'drawn along until the opposite end of the projection may be passedthrough the other end of the slot. 'After this a slight longitudinal backward movement of the blade will cause both ends of the slot to lie beneath the. ends-of the projection. There is suflicient frictional contact between the blade and the holder to prevent the blade shifting in use.

"Claimsr 1. A combined shaving and stropping blade holder for safety razors embodying a comb-like guard formed with a central, longitudinal projection which is adapted to extend through a longitudinal slot in the blade and is provided with blade-engaging means, said projection being of such a height that when the razor is placed upon thestrop the said blade is beveled to form its cutting edge.

' surface of the latter'will be disposed at an angle coincident with the angle to which- 2. A combined shaving and stropping blade holder for safety razors embodying a comb-like guard formed with a central, longitudinal projection which is adapted to extend through a longitudinal slot in the blade and is undercut at its'ends to overlap the a blade, said projection being of such a height that when the razor is placed upon the strop the surface of the latter will be disposed at an angle coincident with the angle to which said blade is beveled to form its cutting ed e.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of. the two undersigned witnesses. Y Y WILLIAM EDMUND OREILLY.

Witnesses: j

W. B. HEARD, E. A. PLUNKET. 

